Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Operation Hastings Map Unlocked Across PC, Xbox 360 and PS3

Its pretty jarring going from Black Ops to BC2: Vietnam. BC2 is great fun but it evidently doesn't run at the same rendering rate as CoD I take it?

I'm not well versed in my graphics tech but can someone explain to me why one game is smooth and crisp while the other is rough and less than responsive?

platform arguments aside, what do you guys think of the map? imo, its the best conquest map in the game... large map with complex terrain and many interesting avenues of approach to the objectives... so far the larger conquest maps have been marred by vast expanses of open terrain turning them into boring snipe-fests with half or more of both teams filled up with bushwookies... but so far hastings seems largely free of that problem...

it also appears that the enemy uncaps are in the "dark zone" for each side... which seems like a pretty good solution to baserape, although it does allow armor and those cursed snipers to sit back in the uncap and attack out with relative impunity (even though that almost guarantees a loss). in fact, thats how i noticed it the first time, trying to kill a tank that wouldnt come out... but it could be that i was just in a bad spot and kept hitting the out-of-bounds area when trying to line up a shot... can anyone confirm/deny? i dont typically move up on uncaps, but next time i play ill try to remember to check...

Translation: PC is where the real gamers are at, and we're not waiting forever for you kids with your oh-so-underpowered consoles to catch up, so here...have fun knowing you lost.

Guys you can thank me, I stat padded the 69 million.

The Vietnam expansion is pretty awesome... but the fact that the PS3 or 360 never got the chance to unlock the 5th map normally is kind of disconcerting...

"Now that PC gamers have proven their might in Bad Company 2, maybe DICE will finally bring the "Onslaught" DLC to the winning platform. Or Battlefield 1943. We'll start holding our breath for both right now. "

Yeah, sure. And public server files. And LAN support.

</sarcasm>

Really rather cheapens and nullifies the work put into it by those of us on the consoles.

It's the parenting equivalent of telling your kids they wont get something until they tidy the room and then giving them the thing simply because they tidied a corner table

Pretty sure the PC smoked the consoles in the last unlock race and because of that DICE stated they would be combining all of the systems into this map unlock race. So isn't this just them releasing a press release announcing they are doing exactly what they said they would do?

Translation: this was a stupid idea so we pulled the ripcord on it.